Miles Jackson

Miles Jackson, 27, was shot 20 times and killed inside an emergency room at Mount Carmel St. Ann's Hospital in Westerville, Ohio on April 12, 2021, during a struggle with Columbus police officers who had come to arrest him on outstanding warrants after he was brought in for a suspected overdose. An earlier pat-down by Westerville police had missed a handgun concealed in his pants pocket; when Columbus officers attempted their own search, prosecutors said Jackson fired the weapon, and a roughly five-minute standoff followed involving more than 90 commands and a stun gun before officers and hospital security opened fire, striking him in the head, chest, abdomen, buttocks, and thighs. A Franklin County grand jury declined to indict any of the Columbus police officers or Mount Carmel security personnel involved in October 2022. No one has ever been charged in Jackson's death.

Westerville, OH · Franklin County

• 2021: Case opens — victim reported missing or found.
• Documented milestones (renewed investigation, media coverage, family advocacy) to be added as sourced.
• Present: case remains unresolved. No named suspect has been convicted.

• The overdose call, the initial pat-down that missed a concealed handgun, and the shooting, per the Franklin County Prosecutor's Office and Ohio Attorney General's investigative findings.
• Jackson had been treated earlier the same day for an overdose, given Narcan, and left the hospital against medical advice before being returned there in police custody hours later on outstanding warrants.
• Prosecutors said forensic testing matched three spent shell casings at the scene to the gun Jackson possessed, and multiple officers reported hearing him fire during the encounter.
• Officers gave more than 90 verbal commands over roughly five minutes and used a stun gun before ultimately opening fire; six individuals in total — Columbus police and Mount Carmel security — discharged their weapons.
• A coroner's report found Jackson was struck 20 times, with a toxicology report showing fentanyl and norfentanyl in his system.
• A Franklin County grand jury returned a “no bill” decision in October 2022, declining to indict any officer or security guard involved; Prosecutor Gary Tyack announced the decision without further comment.
• No officers, hospital staff, or physicians were injured in the shootout, though one bullet passed through an officer's uniform sleeve.

• Whether Jackson fired the number of times and in the manner prosecutors described, versus an alternative account of the encounter, was based substantially on officer testimony and forensic matching, and was never independently tested at a criminal trial since none was brought.
• Why the initial Westerville police pat-down failed to detect the concealed handgun has been acknowledged as a lapse but not addressed through any public accountability measure beyond the prosecutor noting the officer had previously been cautioned for rushing his duties.
• The specific reasoning behind the grand jury's decision, beyond the prosecutor's public summary of the evidence, has not been made available, as Ohio grand jury proceedings are sealed.

• 10TV (WBNS) — “No charges to be filed against officers in Miles Jackson's death”
• AP, via CBS News Pittsburgh — “Officers cleared in shooting of man in Ohio emergency room”
• Franklin County Prosecutor's Office — official statement on the grand jury decision
• Project Cold Case
• Murder Accountability Project
• NamUs